Writer of the month - James Finn Garner
"James Finn Garner was born in Detroit and grew up in the company town of Dearborn, Michigan. After graduating from the University of Michigan (where he won a Hopwood Award for one of his short plays), he moved to Chicago and worked in a number of jobs, including house painter, baker, warehouse clerk, public relations whipping boy, and editor of real estate appraisal publications. Seeking a creative outlet, he began to take improvisational comedy classes and terrorized various Chicago nightclubs for many years.
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, Garner's first book, has sold more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S. and has been translated into 20 languages. It spent 65 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. The runaway success of this book spawned two others, Once Upon A More Enlightened Time and Politically Correct Holiday Stories, both of which also appeared on the N.Y. Times list for extended runs. Other Politically Correct projects included calendars, computer games, and TV pilots. His most recent book is Recut Madness, which shows people from the far right and far left wings how to edit classic movie scenes to protect themselves from differing viewpoints."
taken from http://www.jamesfinngarner.com/bio.html
Those who attended our English (Summer) Course will certainly remember tales like “Little Red Riding Hood” or “Snow Melanin-Impoverished and the Seven Vertically Challenged Persons”. Those who didn’t can find information on this author in http://www.jamesfinngarner.com/ or in his blog http://www.jamesfinngarner.com/wordpress/
If you want to read his tales in Portuguese, you will find a translation in the Library of the ESEB. In English or in Portuguese, Finn Garner stories are excellent summer books.
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, Garner's first book, has sold more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S. and has been translated into 20 languages. It spent 65 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. The runaway success of this book spawned two others, Once Upon A More Enlightened Time and Politically Correct Holiday Stories, both of which also appeared on the N.Y. Times list for extended runs. Other Politically Correct projects included calendars, computer games, and TV pilots. His most recent book is Recut Madness, which shows people from the far right and far left wings how to edit classic movie scenes to protect themselves from differing viewpoints."
taken from http://www.jamesfinngarner.com/bio.html
Those who attended our English (Summer) Course will certainly remember tales like “Little Red Riding Hood” or “Snow Melanin-Impoverished and the Seven Vertically Challenged Persons”. Those who didn’t can find information on this author in http://www.jamesfinngarner.com/ or in his blog http://www.jamesfinngarner.com/wordpress/
If you want to read his tales in Portuguese, you will find a translation in the Library of the ESEB. In English or in Portuguese, Finn Garner stories are excellent summer books.
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Thanks for writing this.
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